Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie Message-ID: <7398@ficc.uu.net> Date: 22 Dec 89 03:16:42 GMT References: <946@crash.cts.com> <1989Dec21.000041.6034@ns.network.com> <1989Dec21.020140.24067@athena.mit.edu> <6577@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 Frankly, given the quality of messages that *have* been gatewayed into Usenet from Fidonet and other BBS-type operations. I'm glad they're being impolite and unneighborly and not responding in kind. I'm afraid they'd be like that unwanted houseguest that never leaves. (not that ALL the fido folks are bad, it's just that the fido s/n ratio is even lower than Usenet) -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com